Several Turkana Basin Institute scientists and Stony Brook University faculty members were featured in a recent documentary exploring the latest scientific research into human origins. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. Several Turkana Basin Institute scientists and Stony Brook University faculty members were featured in a recent documentary exploring the latest scientific [...]
2009 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Zinjanthropus in Olduvai Gorge by Mary Leakey, and The Turkana Basin Institute celebrated the event with a public symposium on September 30, 2009 at Rockefeller University in New York City. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. 2009 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the [...]
STONY BROOK, NY--Frederick Kyalo Manthi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Scholar-in-Residence at the Turkana Basin Institute, recently received an award to attend and present a paper at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP). You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. STONY BROOK, NY--Frederick Kyalo Manthi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Scholar-in-Residence [...]
In September 2009 the first VolkswagenFoundation/DAAD Summerschool was conducted in the Central and Southern Kenya Rift and at the University of Nairobi. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. In September 2009 the first VolkswagenFoundation/DAAD Summerschool was conducted in the Central and Southern Kenya Rift and at the University of Nairobi. Twenty MSc [...]
The 8th Human Evolution workshop and symposium, “Half a Century after Zinj - Paranthropus boisei in Context” was held in Kenya in August 2009, to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Zinjanthropus by Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in 1959. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. The 8th Human [...]
The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility. Return to TBI Posts posts
World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' Image: Skull of Homo floresiensis. Photo credit: Michael J. Morwood. As the debate rages on about whether Homo floresiensis – [...]
Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to the buildings now and the plastering has begun on the outside walls. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to [...]